Planned Her Own Funeral
With sad and sorrowful exactness were the details of the funeral planned by her own mind, carried out Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Agnes Inglis daughter of Dr. David Inglis was laid to rest in Woodmere cemetery in Detroit.
The brilliant young girl had arranged and written out her every wish with regard to her own burial, sending the directions in a letter to a friend in Detroit, who received the missive just 15 minutes after the awful deed was committed, as later events proved. Respecting this voice from the dead, Dr. Inglis and his family followed most minutely the desires of their beloved one.
The religious services were simple, conducted by Rev. Lee S. McCollester, of the Church of Our Father, in the quiet flower-scented rooms of the Inglis home. at 24 Eliot street, Detroit, in the presence of the relatives and a few college friends of the dead girl. According to her wish the young girl was Iaid to rest in a white casket wearing her graduation gown of white. and quite hidden beneath flowers. Her well-loved old violin teacher, Prof. Yunck. played her favorite Mendelssohn's "on Wings of song," and Mrs. C. H. Clements sang "Time's Garden" and "When the Weary Seeking Rest." with violin obligato. The pallbearers were members of the family and the honorary pallbearers members of the Alpha Epsilon Iota sorority, of which Miss lnglis was an active member.
The floral tributes were hundreds in number and of exquisite beauty, the casket itself covered in a pall of white rosebuds sent by the Alpha Epsilon Iota Sororlty.
At the head of the casket stood a beautiful basket of growing fern and starry-eyed daisies, the class flower of 1904, when the dead girl would have graduated from the U. of M. Placed in lovely profusion all about the still form of her who was their bright and sympathetic friend were the loving floral gifts of her sorrowing classmates as follows: All immense cluster of American Beauty roses from the Detroit College of Medicine, class '02; blanket of white rosebuds from the basketball team of the U. of M.; basket of red carnations and ferns from the Beta of Gamma Phi Beta of the U. of M., and an immense wreath of fed and white roses from Smith college girls, representing the college colors.
The offerings of personal friends of the family were equally beautiful and were largely of white and delicate pink. the dead girl's favorite colors.
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